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New comment on your post #21 "Russia: Kosovo and the Asymmetry of Perceptions"
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Dear George,
Very interesting indeed! I read it with extreme pleasure. Nonetheless I found that the consequences stemming from an Albanian unilateral declaration of independence may have bees treated a bit lightly, in the light of the possible implications related with the radical Islamist terrorist threat (which may consequently and subsequently materialize in that area, already fertile ground for this kind of developments). Then are we really sure that Kossovo is a sort of side issue for the Western world? Let us not forget that Kossovo is not far away from the heart of Europe in a Mediterranean scenario already blighted by destabilizing factors in many a place of the region.
For the rest I entirely subscribe to the idea extensively analyzed in your writing that Americans and their European allies are not able (or perhaps unwilling to do so) to discern the profound differences existing between 1999 and now; Russians are in effect smarting for a revenge which may delete the humiliation suffered under Yeltsin. At present they have the wherewithal to give some substance to the big-power policy lost since the end of the Soviet empire.
As a matter of fact the popularity of Putin owes a lot to the desire by Russians to turn a new page on that.
Many thanks indeed,
A friendly reader (very much interested in this field)
Angelo Travaglini

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